Wow...what a horrible interpretation, eh?

[barman]

Once you have both feet down and have control of ball beyond the goal line, is it not a TD?

Had the play occurred within the field, I can understand how they could say the last second slip made it incomplete.

I guess I don't fully understand that rule

 

[viking611]

don't think he did either.

 

[Betallsports]

This was the guy in the Replay booth, coming to work Today

 

[billhill999]

In the 'process'.
WTF is that?
I have no money riding on that call, but that is a TD all day.

 

[steaktartar]

according to the officials then if you catch the ball in the endzone run around dance for a few seconds it is incomplete because you didnt land on the ground and hang on to the ball?

 

[Halifax]

Looked like a TD to me, although for the sake of my pending bets, I'm glad it wasn't.

 

[Betallsports]

One of the Worst calls I've seen :>(

 

[Scoops]

Pass interference

 

[Scoops]

Ooops ,wrong thread.

 

[SportSavant]

an absolute shame, it would have been his first TD ever, eh?

 

[hosnatcher]

When you are an owner and you sue the NFL you can expect to get calls like this and the infamous tuck rule.

 

[PokerKingJim]

Stupid rule, but that's the rule

 

[viking611]

Stupid rule, but that's the rule

what's the rule?

 

[PokerKingJim]

They have to maintain possession all the way to the ground, whether in the end zone or not

 

[BC-Eagles]

Same exact play happened in the Pats game with Watson and they gave Watson the TD. Literally almost identical, terrible call in the Raiders game, he had 2 feet down and possession, that's a catch. The only way it isn't a catch is if the act of the catch includes contact with the ground (i.e. a diving catch), where the receiver needs to keep his hands under the ball. Terrible call here for the Raiders.

 

[viking611]

I cannot find an 'official NFL rule book' anywhere! have searched for this in the past and yesterday and now tonight and no luck...and i can find about anything online!

NFL.com offers some rules, but it is extremely weak.

I challenge anyone on here to find "official rule book of the NFL"

this doesn't count: http://www.amazon.com/Official-Playing-Rules-NFL-2008/dp/1600781438 I'm not paying for it!

 

[hosnatcher]

what's really scary is that you cannot find an 'official NFL rule book' anywhere! have searched for this in the past and yesterday and now tonight and no luck...and i can find about anything online!

NFL.com offers some rules, but it is extremely weak.

I challenge anyone on here to find "official rule book of the NFL"

It's like the Great Benefit employee manual from that book/movie The Rainmaker. Somewhere there is a master rule book that covers and contradicts every circumstance.

 

[BC-Eagles]

viking-
I think there's too much subjectivity to put a rule on it. It literally depends on what type of catch it is. The key is if the receiver has possession and possession should mean if the receiver has control of the ball with two feet in and the ball over the goal line, it's a TD. In the raiders game they were basically saying he didn't have full possession with 2 feet down when he caught it, which brings into play the ground as part of the catch. It was basically BS since he had control and feet down in the first place. I'm only interested in this game as a football fan but that was really bad.

 

[SportSavant]

and woudnt you know it, the chargers win by the exact 4 points that were taken off the board

 

[quantumleap]

They have to maintain possession all the way to the ground, whether in the end zone or not

Agreed. Even if a receiver catches the ball with 2 feet in bounds and falls out of bounds and loses the ball when he hits the ground, it's incomplete.

It's been this way for years people.